Washington State Impolite is a growing catalog of the screw-ups Washington State has become since the arrival of the "sixties" generation of micromanagers. They have installed a political class of crass manipulators and belligerent attorneys to regiment the everyday lives of formerly free citizens.

Government panacea is a defective idea -- why should government run your life?

All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

SB 5248, another proposed tax on plastic shopping bags. This proposal would impose a two-cent tax on each plastic bag used in retail sale.

The Democrat sponsors, Senators Chase and Kline, say they are motivated by environmental and landfill worries. But plastic bags are less than 2% of the waste stream going to landfills. Clearly, this is just another tax for money hungry politicians so they can spend our money with their cronies.

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The State Constitution says

Washington State Constitution, Declaration of Rights

"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights." - Article 1, Section 1

"The right of petition and of the people peaceably to assemble for the common good shall never be abridged." - Article 1, Section 4

"The first power reserved by the people is the initiative." - Article 2, Section 1(a)

US Senator Patty Murray

US Senator Maria Cantwell

Contact Maria CantwellCantwell's political philosophyis authoritarian left.Senator Cantwell misses many important votes. Apparently bored with being senator, she had an affair in 2010.Barf

Authoritarianism

Impolite calls the two Washington State Senators "authoritarian" because they seek to expand the intrusion of government into private lives. Let me explain.

Suppose there is some service 10% of the people say they need. These two would support a government program to provide for that need. Suppose the program is enacted. Then 100% of the people end up paying for a program only 10% ever wanted.

The end result is one in ten people have what they want, and nine in ten have been compelled by force to take what they don't want. How can the whole people be called free?